Gains Quotes - Page 19

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

To develop a more or less accurate self-image...is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't know existed. And these facets are easily spotted because they show up as your symptoms.

To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.